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Lovely day in the Obama-Biden city. A lovely last night happy hour. The campaign is finishing extremely well and it is becoming clear each day that the re-election is a foot. The SNL last night was honest: GOP has no chance till 2016, if at all. As Thomas Friedman writes in the NYT today: Where is the vision in the GOP?

Come join us in the re-election of the greatest POTUS. You will have no regrets and you will be part of the WINNING team!

Where I live NWS is forecasting 99 F on Wednesday, just when we were getting used to seasonable coolness. Our paltry few sycamores up in the hill valleys will change and be beautiful, somewhere around the end of November.

My bride is an elder in our local Presbyterian Church. Everyone..EVEN FOLKS WHO DON'T THINK GAYS SHOULD BE CLERGY, will say this is a good man and a great preacher.

Although I have a strong faith, I no longer belong to any church, this Westboro cabal is one of the reasons for that. Thanks to organized religion, more people have been killed in the name of The Lord, God, Allah, Yahweh, than have been saved in his name.

Where I live NWS is forecasting 99 F on Wednesday, just when we were getting used to seasonable coolness. Our paltry few sycamores up in the hill valleys will change and be beautiful, somewhere around the end of November.

Yesterday was the 140th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, the result of a late heat wave, so a lot of places can still have very bad days ahead.

I wish I could agree (the stuff about the greatest president), AP. Of all the menu items to select from, what I will choose is the vice presidency. Of late our actual VPs and candidate VPs have been uncomplementary. They just didn't fit. Biden, Cheney, Palin. There's no OOMPH there.

I'm gonna say it, so brace yourselves. The last really inspired VP choice was of course, Gore, of Clinton-Gore.

Obama picked Joe Biden precisely because Biden is an idiot. Obama, the community organizer, state senator and short-timer US senator could not afford to be shown up in ability by his VP. George W. Bush, on the other hand, picked perhaps the most experienced, intelligent and effective person available. He wasn't worried about being shown up. Cheney for his part contributed greatly, and in my opinion for the better, to W's administration and to our country.

"Although I have a strong faith, I no longer belong to any church, this Westboro cabal is one of the reasons for that. Thanks to organized religion, more people have been killed in the name of The Lord, God, Allah, Yahweh, than have been saved in his name."

I have no faith, which is why I don't belong to any church, but I know that the Westboro is no church, to use it as a reason not to belong to any church is stupid and perhaps organized religion is (in your mind) considered bad precisely because of people like you not being involved.